Re: Native Client

[Stuart Johnson <stuart stu org uk>]

Thanks. I can see this being very useful, but It's not really going to 
be a solution for mobile devices where latency is poor.  I was hoping to 
be able to write GTK apps that execute in the browser.


On 16/08/11 14:11, Keith Poole wrote:
> AFAIK (I verg well may be wrong), it depends on the HTML5 canvas redraw. I'm assuming that it's going to be pretty close to VNC speeds as it _should_ only redraw whats changed, and I don't see why it can't employ at least basic compression. I may be miss-over/under-estimating things here though, and most likely am.
>
> I should be testing this as part of our final testing (www.desura.com on Fedora 15 amd64) in the next week or so though, so I'll let you know if I remember!
>
> This is of course something I'm keeping a close eye on, as most things are going the way of the web these days, and Alexander Larsson is a very interesting person ;)
>
> Regards,
> Keith Poole
> Linux Engineer / NPC
> Desura Pty Ltd
>
>
>
> On 16/08/2011, at 9:13 PM, Stuart Johnson<stuart stu org uk>  wrote:
>
> > On 16/08/11 12:05, Keith Poole wrote:
> > > Have a google of "GTK Broadway", your mind will be blown ;)
> > Yes I saw that.  It is very cool.  How scalable is it though? Is it like a VNC thing where bandwidth&  latency matter?
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